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you have members of congress who are more than excellent. crafting legislation, seeking opportunity, trying to give back. right now i'll just sit on my seat and say where's the summer youth job program that we've all been fighting for? we had one in '09. then came the big money cutting. so i think that when we end on tonight, weaving in and out of these excellent suggestions -- and, hopefully, we'll have answers to some of your questions -- president faces the same uphill battle. the executive order was signed a year ago, and we don't have a budget today. we don't want to throw stones, we want to ask the broader politics, do you recognize that we, too, are america? [applause] so i am looking forward to getting in the mix and getting you further energized as you've with already been, but i want you to keep that in mind so you won't say, well, what are they doing? why aren't they doing anything? my god, i can tell you we go to bed doing something. we're happening on in the dark -- hanging on in the dark of night trying to do something. but we'
you have members of congress who are more than excellent. crafting legislation, seeking opportunity, trying to give back. right now i'll just sit on my seat and say where's the summer youth job program that we've all been fighting for? we had one in '09. then came the big money cutting. so i think that when we end on tonight, weaving in and out of these excellent suggestions -- and, hopefully, we'll have answers to some of your questions -- president faces the same uphill battle. the executive...
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you really presented excellent testimony. you answered things in a very forthright, candid, crisp way and very much appreciate it. i want to also note that some other agencies were invited like hhs. they had to be in chicago with rahm emanuel. you make your choices. other agencies have submitted letters, and or -- for those that we wanted to ask questions like va, agriculture, that's why we really appreciated omb here to do that. i wallet to tell the members -- i want to tell the members and for the record we have letters from every agency thanks to the cooperation of omb. they will now be entered into the record, a public record, and also staff on both side of the aisle will be able to scrutinize them while we now work on this. for my members i would like to thank the active participation. the fact that really everyone stayed pretty much within the five-minute rule, i mean, it is now just a little past 12:30. and i think this is really the tone and the tempo that i'd hoped we'd move briskly, people would exercise their due d
you really presented excellent testimony. you answered things in a very forthright, candid, crisp way and very much appreciate it. i want to also note that some other agencies were invited like hhs. they had to be in chicago with rahm emanuel. you make your choices. other agencies have submitted letters, and or -- for those that we wanted to ask questions like va, agriculture, that's why we really appreciated omb here to do that. i wallet to tell the members -- i want to tell the members and...
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because they strive for excellence. we, i brought economic expertise, i brought business expertise, and i brought fraud detection and national security expertise to bear. those efforts have been evolving, and most recently we decided to create a new eb-5 program. embedded in it will be fraud detection and national security personnel and and a greater level of economic and be business expertise. >> good. one last question, and i'm going to yield back to senator heitkamp. just to follow up on this. in reviewing your fbi file, there was a reference to several employees who asserted that you'd retaliated against them. i think they may be out in the california office, and in the report that i read it said fully investigated, and it was not viewed to be a matter of retaliation. do you have any recollection of that? >> i most certainly do. >> now, can you share, just put a little bit of light on that, please? >> the office of special counsel determined that there were no facts to support the allegations. >> all right, good. >>
because they strive for excellence. we, i brought economic expertise, i brought business expertise, and i brought fraud detection and national security expertise to bear. those efforts have been evolving, and most recently we decided to create a new eb-5 program. embedded in it will be fraud detection and national security personnel and and a greater level of economic and be business expertise. >> good. one last question, and i'm going to yield back to senator heitkamp. just to follow up...
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we think it's an excellent idea. anything that can get these dangerous medications out of people's hands who don't need them, keep them away from teenagers, who sometimes rifled their parents medicine chest, et cetera, and we're looking at how we can do this. certainly mailing back is no problem for us. we will institute at as quickly as we can. the receptacle collection depends on a ruling that our police are actual law enforcement officers, we think that's going to come but we need to establish in fact they are. and then i believe the of the provision was handing these over, at the time of visit, the practitioners. looking at whether we can legally do that or not. it's an excellent idea, and we fully endorse it, are going to do everything we can to participate. >> anything we can do or at least i can do, i would be delighted to undertake. you know, i have seen escape fire, the documentary. i think the chairman mentioned it earlier during the proceedings, and i hope that more people can be exposed to it, given the o
we think it's an excellent idea. anything that can get these dangerous medications out of people's hands who don't need them, keep them away from teenagers, who sometimes rifled their parents medicine chest, et cetera, and we're looking at how we can do this. certainly mailing back is no problem for us. we will institute at as quickly as we can. the receptacle collection depends on a ruling that our police are actual law enforcement officers, we think that's going to come but we need to...
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it's an excellent movie. when lincoln is in negotiations on the refer queen and talking to the commissioners from the confederacy, one is actually alexander stevens, who was lincoln's best friend in the house of representatives. they were both whigs in the day before political parties were regional. they were both whigs, and they both work on a presidential campaign together. lincoln worked with jefferson davis. lib lincoln's vice president, hamlin, is a senator. his second vice president', andrew johnson, was a member of the house with abraham lincoln. so so many of these people who would become critical in the civil war, who would become important to lincoln's rise to the presidency, they were there in the 30th congress with them. fascinating to watch him interact without imagining what roles they would play later in history. so what are the major issues when lincoln gets to congress? nothing beggar than the mexico-american war. they're trying to figure out, what is the end game in mexico? this is something
it's an excellent movie. when lincoln is in negotiations on the refer queen and talking to the commissioners from the confederacy, one is actually alexander stevens, who was lincoln's best friend in the house of representatives. they were both whigs in the day before political parties were regional. they were both whigs, and they both work on a presidential campaign together. lincoln worked with jefferson davis. lib lincoln's vice president, hamlin, is a senator. his second vice president',...
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i think senator merkley has asked an excellent question x you want to get it right. and the answer, i would suggest, should be in writing that way you get it right, and he gets his answer. how does that sound? >> we'll take that for the record. [laughter] >> i've asked that that question get answered tomorrow at the hearing by justice, senator merkley, exactly as you have delivered the question. >> okay. but either way, senator merkley should get his answer, and i would suggest perhaps both in writing, your hearing and into his hands. >> i thank the chair, both chairs. and if i can elaborate on the piece i would like answered, is that okay, madam chair? >> [inaudible] >> thank you. >> it's your time. >> in between these two pieces, a fisa court gives an interpretation of the plain language of the law. their interpretation is what translates the standards in the law into what is governable in terms of what you can do. i had an amendment last december that said these findings of law that translate the requirements that are in the law into what is permissible needs to b
i think senator merkley has asked an excellent question x you want to get it right. and the answer, i would suggest, should be in writing that way you get it right, and he gets his answer. how does that sound? >> we'll take that for the record. [laughter] >> i've asked that that question get answered tomorrow at the hearing by justice, senator merkley, exactly as you have delivered the question. >> okay. but either way, senator merkley should get his answer, and i would...
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those are really excellent questions. on the bank of china as i mentioned we will see whether it's sustain. we've had iterations in the past of china preparing to crack down, appearing to get tough with then as time went by suddenly people forgot about and china withdrew its pressure on north korea. we will see whether that happens this time. on the caisson thing, i guess it is now put at all the south koreans have our out of there, so completely dead zone now. i hadn't heard that new, china rebuffing the overture to take the workers, south korean and north korean workers, both? >> yes. it was in the japanese press this week, and said that north korea wanted them, asked china to take those workers, and i assume that they don't really want those workers going back into north korean society there because of long contact with south koreans. >> get contaminated. >> yes. and, of course, we read reports, some of them have been sent to reeducation camps and things like that. but i thought rebuffing that request from north korea,
those are really excellent questions. on the bank of china as i mentioned we will see whether it's sustain. we've had iterations in the past of china preparing to crack down, appearing to get tough with then as time went by suddenly people forgot about and china withdrew its pressure on north korea. we will see whether that happens this time. on the caisson thing, i guess it is now put at all the south koreans have our out of there, so completely dead zone now. i hadn't heard that new, china...
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he has fostered a culture of unsurpassed excellence at every level of the bureau, insuring that every special agent, every analyst, every technician, every support professional is dedicated to and incredibly effective at protecting our national security and combating crime. he has, in short, i think, set the standard for what it means to be the director of the fbi. positioning the bureau to deal with the 21st century threats that it has to confront without losing sight of its traditional law enforcement missions. and that's why when his ten-year term as director was set to expire in 2011, president obama took the extraordinary step of asking the united states senate to extend it by two full years. and it's why the senate, once again, unanimously approved that request. and it's why although i rebret that we've been unable to convince bob and ann to stick around for another two years or maybe another 12, i'm confident that he will leave this nation not only safer, but stronger and more prepared than he found it. so, bob and ann, as you open an exciting new chapter in your lives and hope
he has fostered a culture of unsurpassed excellence at every level of the bureau, insuring that every special agent, every analyst, every technician, every support professional is dedicated to and incredibly effective at protecting our national security and combating crime. he has, in short, i think, set the standard for what it means to be the director of the fbi. positioning the bureau to deal with the 21st century threats that it has to confront without losing sight of its traditional law...
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pascrell had a very excellent presentation at a question on what the states, how the sake of being limited and why we have to do with that you. one of the sad part is we have had testimony of this panel and the panel that lets of those questions can never be answered again. it is one of the reasons why we do have panels today, and all the testimonies given, all the questions are answered. we have some unique situations that are happening right now. this is not our committee. >> i'm not sure if we can and i think is to be another vote. my guess was that those members left to go vote, and what i can do is ask that those members be brought back up. gentlemen, what we're going to do to avoid our having a problem with this in the future is we're going to take a recess, about everybody to go vote on the subsequent two votes, and then will bring people back. there's mr. pascrell. i'm so glad you came back. we'd like to have you available for questions, if we could. the were going to go ahead. today is a very unusual -- this afternoon is very unusual, so if you don't mind, if you would come back a
pascrell had a very excellent presentation at a question on what the states, how the sake of being limited and why we have to do with that you. one of the sad part is we have had testimony of this panel and the panel that lets of those questions can never be answered again. it is one of the reasons why we do have panels today, and all the testimonies given, all the questions are answered. we have some unique situations that are happening right now. this is not our committee. >> i'm not...
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i just don't see it under the islamic republic. >> jim moody in the front. >> first of all, excellent report, and i congratulate the efforts of stewart, and barbara. i lived in iran for two years. let me ask you this. if we do the things that are in get or suggested, without possibly affect u.s.-israel relations? i know that many parts of the middle east thinks that israel and u.s. are blocked together point for point, and that would not necessarily be true if this were implemented. >> well, i travel extensively to israel several times a year, and i sort i can't speak for the israeli leadership. i think that, jim, one of the things that was achieved by the president's visit and by the extraordinary statements by former heads of the idf and the intelligence together have aligned at least on a timetable the u.s. and israel have given some breathing space or sanctioned uncertainly deferred any military action. at the same time, there are potentially different in games. -- into games. for example, it's quite clear as greg was indicating and i think it's quite obvious from the negotiations
i just don't see it under the islamic republic. >> jim moody in the front. >> first of all, excellent report, and i congratulate the efforts of stewart, and barbara. i lived in iran for two years. let me ask you this. if we do the things that are in get or suggested, without possibly affect u.s.-israel relations? i know that many parts of the middle east thinks that israel and u.s. are blocked together point for point, and that would not necessarily be true if this were implemented....
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the panel presents an excellent opportunity to solicit independent advice on the appropriate role of the convening authority in today's now to justice system which includes robust rights of appeal. proceeding with care and listening to all those affected by the military justice system and to experts on the administered justice under other systems, will ensure that changes to the administration and military justice are constructive and avoid any unintended negative repercussions. but care and caution must not be allowed to become an excuse for an action. we are further action is needed. our men and women in uniform serve to protect us every day. they put their lives on the line for us with this great country of ours. we owe them a military and sexual predators have no part, and sexual assault has no place. until all sexual assault in the military is eradicated, it is our duty to ensure that the victims find support, and we lawyers at this table have a special obligation to ensure that the military justice system works effectively to provide justice in every case and to all involved. i
the panel presents an excellent opportunity to solicit independent advice on the appropriate role of the convening authority in today's now to justice system which includes robust rights of appeal. proceeding with care and listening to all those affected by the military justice system and to experts on the administered justice under other systems, will ensure that changes to the administration and military justice are constructive and avoid any unintended negative repercussions. but care and...
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we are bringing research excellency centers from you is to chile and many of them are already there right now. we're in the process of inviting, and many americans, research centers of great prestige that are applying because it's a joint venture between your government and these research centers. so if we think just about trade, maybe we have already accomplished much. but if we think about what it takes to become a better country, we still have a lot of areas where we can collaborate to the benefit of all chileans your. >> how would you assess the obama administration's overall relationship with latin america? is obama taking a genuine interest in latin america, or is the u.s. playing defense as china fosters ties in the region? >> we understand that a country like the u.s. has many, many interests around the world. but we think the with a special condition because we are part of the same continent. all of us are americans. that's why when i heard the bush initiative from alaska -- [inaudible]. i thought it was the right idea. unfortunately, we have not made too much progress in that di
we are bringing research excellency centers from you is to chile and many of them are already there right now. we're in the process of inviting, and many americans, research centers of great prestige that are applying because it's a joint venture between your government and these research centers. so if we think just about trade, maybe we have already accomplished much. but if we think about what it takes to become a better country, we still have a lot of areas where we can collaborate to the...
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it is quite an excellent page turner. the reason the original impetus of the whole project is to think about the commander-in-chief clause has been a focal constitutional argument for a number of cases. i was one of president truman legal justifications, relying on opinions with fdr for the proposition that commander-in-chief clause gave the president in time of war some authority to confiscate property on american soil. so we see that as long-ago import moment in the case that we continue to see it in the war and terror and most recently on the debate over president obama's continued engagement in the libyan hostilities. apparently contrary to the meeting of the worst power which followed law school thinks is constitutional. as he told my class, it's not constitutional ayes applications. apparently the obama administration thoughts would be a constitutional for congress to provide too many limits on the president's power to can act hostility against libya. where the czar, we don't know. the commander-in-chief clause is a
it is quite an excellent page turner. the reason the original impetus of the whole project is to think about the commander-in-chief clause has been a focal constitutional argument for a number of cases. i was one of president truman legal justifications, relying on opinions with fdr for the proposition that commander-in-chief clause gave the president in time of war some authority to confiscate property on american soil. so we see that as long-ago import moment in the case that we continue to...
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>> is a really excellent question that i'm happy to clarify it because i think it's important in this whole context to do so. first of all, i have enormous respect provided. i have worked with him closely, and many, many meetings with him. i think a lot of people had confidence in his stewardship financially and his financial stewardship, the accountability of transparency brought. but first of all he's not going away completely. he's going to be there as a caretaker but i don't know how long the caretaker will take but he will be there to work in a transition never wondered never two, he will remain involved in palestinian affairs. i'm confident. number three, the peace process and the capacities of the palestinians are in the end bigger than one person. they just are. and there are people who continue this journey. i'm confident of that. i believe that there is a way for president a boss could persuaded of the good faith efforts that the israelis are prepared to take, provided they take them. and i think there's a way to get to these negotiations. i'm not saying that the past -- pat
>> is a really excellent question that i'm happy to clarify it because i think it's important in this whole context to do so. first of all, i have enormous respect provided. i have worked with him closely, and many, many meetings with him. i think a lot of people had confidence in his stewardship financially and his financial stewardship, the accountability of transparency brought. but first of all he's not going away completely. he's going to be there as a caretaker but i don't know how...
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of those 32 airs, 22 areas, it was rated excellent in 14, sphiex in 7, or marginal in 3. that one area rated marginal was missile crew operations. it is unusual for a missile wing to be graded marginal in that area. it does not happen very often. now, to be clear, marginal is passing. it meets the minimum standards for getting the job done. but it is not the level they would expect from their crew performance. the wing commander and the be group commander at mynot immediately started an investigation into what had caused the performance by their crew members. they expanded it to the entire operational crew force of the wing, and they conducted a comprehensive top-to-bottom assessment of training, performance on routine testing simulations, etc., etc., and when they were complete, they found 17 members of that wing not from one unit, but spread across the wing, who they felt were not demonstrating the proper attitude and effort to stay completely up to speed on everything necessary to be perfect in the nuclear operations business. and so they took those 17 crew members, an
of those 32 airs, 22 areas, it was rated excellent in 14, sphiex in 7, or marginal in 3. that one area rated marginal was missile crew operations. it is unusual for a missile wing to be graded marginal in that area. it does not happen very often. now, to be clear, marginal is passing. it meets the minimum standards for getting the job done. but it is not the level they would expect from their crew performance. the wing commander and the be group commander at mynot immediately started an...
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, and the prime minister of the democratic republic of congo, his excellence -- excellency. thank you so much for being with us. [applause] >> thank you. yeah, thank you. and now i'd like to introduce the head table that will lead us through this experience. i'll start on my right. today you can say that you ate breakfast with the president and a gold medalist. at the end of our program, our closing prayer will be offered by olympic champion gabrielle douglas -- [applause] whose new book is appropriate lid subtitled, "my leap of faith." [laughter] next to her is former senator, cabinet member and president of the red cross, elizabeth dole. [applause] elizabeth, believe it or not, was our breakfast speaker 26 years ago. [laughter] she will give a reading from the holy scriptures. next to her is representative janice hahn, one of two co-chairs of the house prayer breakfast group. [applause] and next year she'll be standing in my place here. then we have admiral and mrs. jonathan greenert. he is the u.s. chief of naval operation which puts him in charge of about 300,000 sailors
, and the prime minister of the democratic republic of congo, his excellence -- excellency. thank you so much for being with us. [applause] >> thank you. yeah, thank you. and now i'd like to introduce the head table that will lead us through this experience. i'll start on my right. today you can say that you ate breakfast with the president and a gold medalist. at the end of our program, our closing prayer will be offered by olympic champion gabrielle douglas -- [applause] whose new book...
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you've done an excellent job. secretary lew, i completely agree with your statements that even though our economy is improving, more work is necessary to support job creation and accelerate growth. in every community across new mexico, i hear the same concerns: jobs are hard to come by, and businesses are struggling to stay open. hard working new mexicans feel the recovery hasn't come to main street and to rural towns. can you speak to what efforts treasury has underway to help the recovery reach main street, how are the treasury programs sporting vibrant -- supporting vibrant local economies in cities and small towns, and how do these efforts help support a strong, building a stronger middle class? >> senator, i think we have to start with the big picture. we need to get overall economic growth growing faster because we do need to grow more and create more jobs to reach all the parts of our country that need to get the benefits of a growing economy. so part of it is at the macro level which gets me back to we sho
you've done an excellent job. secretary lew, i completely agree with your statements that even though our economy is improving, more work is necessary to support job creation and accelerate growth. in every community across new mexico, i hear the same concerns: jobs are hard to come by, and businesses are struggling to stay open. hard working new mexicans feel the recovery hasn't come to main street and to rural towns. can you speak to what efforts treasury has underway to help the recovery...
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it's really excellent timing, and i think that we may have to go over the cliff, you know? if it's forced into it. but this, you know, this idea that you, that you bring down the cost of medicare by making it unavailable to more people -- [laughter] is a terrible idea of mr. boehner's. and the idea of -- i would be terribly upset, along with many of my friends, if obama compromised too much on what needs to happen that's called the fiscal cliff. please, carry on. [laughter] >> do you think that a prominent third party would help our country? >> i certainly felt strongly about that when i supported john anderson in '79. and he was, a large part of anderson's campaign was to sue state, the state ballot procedure into allowing third parties to have more access to the electoral process. um, i would like to see a third party available. but that, too, seems like a really tall order. yeah. >> what do you think is the appropriate role for actors, musicians and other celebrities to play in the political arena? >> you know, i think if you are a really motivated, committed citizen who
it's really excellent timing, and i think that we may have to go over the cliff, you know? if it's forced into it. but this, you know, this idea that you, that you bring down the cost of medicare by making it unavailable to more people -- [laughter] is a terrible idea of mr. boehner's. and the idea of -- i would be terribly upset, along with many of my friends, if obama compromised too much on what needs to happen that's called the fiscal cliff. please, carry on. [laughter] >> do you...
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>> an excellent question. the coming generation of algorithms -- algorithmists need to know how to put it in storming, not in the old-fashioned structured way, but in a more unstructured storage that we see today with technologists, and then they need to look at the data and analyze it. they need to use physical packages, network analysis tools, there's a wide variety of tools and messes available. they might also need good grounding in the latest of statistics. a lot of the statistic messages we use were designed for small data range. there could be need to upgrade or improve them to an extent, and then they might need aceps of visualizing the data if we go into the big data age, and in addition to all of that, we like to view them with a theoretical grounding of not just maltmatics, but perhaps the loss and more general theory. often times people who are doing very well as algorithmists are those who come from the natural scientists, particularly physicists who are well trained to deal with huge amounts of d
>> an excellent question. the coming generation of algorithms -- algorithmists need to know how to put it in storming, not in the old-fashioned structured way, but in a more unstructured storage that we see today with technologists, and then they need to look at the data and analyze it. they need to use physical packages, network analysis tools, there's a wide variety of tools and messes available. they might also need good grounding in the latest of statistics. a lot of the statistic...
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i want to start by thanking the alliance and kaiser for an excellent, excellent discussion. this is a tough area. this is not a simple area. and i personally have a lot of sympathy for the effort to deal with he fragmentation of medicare. it does not make sense but no one would design that program today. however, i want to make two kinds of comments. one is on messages from focus groups that i've reviewed over the past two years, trying to test out some of these ideas were seniors. and i think it's fair to say that the idea of a deductible that comes every january after you've just spent christmas with your grandkids is a nonstarter. there's simply no way to sell that to retirees. now, i do think that retirees understand that maybe there should be some cost sharing at the point of service, but the deductible is just an impossible sell is what i can report. now, i'm not saying it's bad policy. i'm just saying a flat across the board approach is a very difficult one to convince seniors that works. so i much more interested in the kind of variable benefit that she reported on f
i want to start by thanking the alliance and kaiser for an excellent, excellent discussion. this is a tough area. this is not a simple area. and i personally have a lot of sympathy for the effort to deal with he fragmentation of medicare. it does not make sense but no one would design that program today. however, i want to make two kinds of comments. one is on messages from focus groups that i've reviewed over the past two years, trying to test out some of these ideas were seniors. and i think...
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truly an excellent panel. marvelous resource. of course, we picked you, so i guess we get some credit here. but truly marvelous, and thank you very much for your testimony and your responsiveness. and with that, the committee stands adjourned. >> as you know, we want to invest a lot more there and keep saying that's the best investment we can make as a country if we're serious about closing the opportunity gap, getting our babies ready to be successful. on the early child side, a cut of about $400 million. as many as 70,000 children would lose access to head start slots this fall and as many as 14,000 teachers who teach those children would lose those jobs. and that money does not come from our department, obviously, it comes from hhs, but this is just talking about what impacts kids. on the k-12 side, as you guys know, the vast majority of our funding goes to two different situations, and we always are funding at the federal level. we're the minority investor, 80-90% is local. but what we do is we help support the nation's most
truly an excellent panel. marvelous resource. of course, we picked you, so i guess we get some credit here. but truly marvelous, and thank you very much for your testimony and your responsiveness. and with that, the committee stands adjourned. >> as you know, we want to invest a lot more there and keep saying that's the best investment we can make as a country if we're serious about closing the opportunity gap, getting our babies ready to be successful. on the early child side, a cut of...
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and i think it's excellent that he is doing the good work and his constituents and i pretended to all those are joining a. as i said earlier it is good news that volunteering is up, the big society is getting bigger. >> is he still eating processed beef? >> i'm falling fred kempe what the food standard agency said, and what the food standard agency say is there's nothing unsafe on our shelves. >> thank you, mr. speaker. a review into the procedures of the northern hospital has been carried out because of the high mortality rate. clearly this is a concern to my constituents. and the prime minister assure them that whatever recommendation come out of the review will be complemented in full? >> well, i concern to give that assurance. it is important we get to the bottom of any hospital that has an unnaturally high mortality rate. it's important these inspections and investigations are properly carried out and that we all learn the lessons of the report. >> order. urgent question. >> you on c-span2 we will be the british house of commons now as they move onto other legislative business. y
and i think it's excellent that he is doing the good work and his constituents and i pretended to all those are joining a. as i said earlier it is good news that volunteering is up, the big society is getting bigger. >> is he still eating processed beef? >> i'm falling fred kempe what the food standard agency said, and what the food standard agency say is there's nothing unsafe on our shelves. >> thank you, mr. speaker. a review into the procedures of the northern hospital has...
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>> it's an excellent question, congresswoman chu i would say, to meet dhs intelligence has struggled at times. we all know it's struggled. it has in my view for principled things that have to do really well and all the rest it should just stop doing entirely. one, it is the only intelligence organization that is focused on what's going in and out of the borders. it better do that perfectly or as near as i can to perfect and it has to do that in close conjunction with cbp, customs and border protection and customs enforcement to combat to that in a minute. that's number one. .. >> that we've all talked so much about. and in my view, it hasn't done a great job at that. it's done a good job of building fusion be centers and educating that work force, but this more granular operational level is not what it has worked with the fusion centers as much to do. fourth and final, it has to be a true fusion center within dhs itself to leverage all of the intelligence that customs and border protection, immigrations and customs enforcement, tsa, secret service, coast guard already get. if it can
>> it's an excellent question, congresswoman chu i would say, to meet dhs intelligence has struggled at times. we all know it's struggled. it has in my view for principled things that have to do really well and all the rest it should just stop doing entirely. one, it is the only intelligence organization that is focused on what's going in and out of the borders. it better do that perfectly or as near as i can to perfect and it has to do that in close conjunction with cbp, customs and...
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she's a good candidate, excellent candidate. she's willing to serve. thank you. >> that's my plan. [laughter] thank you mr. chairman. that was an impressive group of introductions and i really appreciate that you listed out the stakeholders in your statement. i used to be in the shoe business, i call those customers. it's a great thing to have recognized. i am concerned about some recent reports that identified some competitive effect of excessive integration in hospital systems including reduction and access and increase in cost for the consumers. what's cms doing to ensure the incentive build together medicare program a better coordinate care or integrate services. don't have an adverse effect on competition and the price of health care in the long run? and have you engaged in the department of justice on the issue at all? >> thank you. this is something that we do work with the department of justice and but in a different way. when we tend to look at model through the innovation center it tends to be engaging the department of justice to make sure we're not creating any anticomp
she's a good candidate, excellent candidate. she's willing to serve. thank you. >> that's my plan. [laughter] thank you mr. chairman. that was an impressive group of introductions and i really appreciate that you listed out the stakeholders in your statement. i used to be in the shoe business, i call those customers. it's a great thing to have recognized. i am concerned about some recent reports that identified some competitive effect of excessive integration in hospital systems including...
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which is excellent career advice. [laughter] i mean, that alone was worth the price of admission to this. but then he said what is the best -- he said get on a rocket she. he said google is a rocket ship. yes, you're right, we don't know what you're going to do exactly, bigger offered a seat on a rocketship don't ask it what seat. because what eric said is that when industries are doing well, everyone -- when industries and companies are not doing as well people don't do as well. extrapolating from that, go where your skills are needed to not have one can join the high-tech rocketship industry but there are areas of every company, of every interest, different specialty where your skills are more important and there's a growing need for them. i think that it's been the most important career advice i got, and i'm so grateful. >> thank you very much. let's return to the book. i want to go back, i'm still upset about this 77% number. >> i am glad that i am, too. >> we agree. when you talk about childcare and to talk about
which is excellent career advice. [laughter] i mean, that alone was worth the price of admission to this. but then he said what is the best -- he said get on a rocket she. he said google is a rocket ship. yes, you're right, we don't know what you're going to do exactly, bigger offered a seat on a rocketship don't ask it what seat. because what eric said is that when industries are doing well, everyone -- when industries and companies are not doing as well people don't do as well. extrapolating...
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they have a long history of doing excellent survey methodology work. so when i was looking around to retire after 27 years at the census bureau, i visited a number of companies, and norc was a company that shared my vision of doing work that was very important for the public good. and at the time norc also offered a new challenge in that they were reinventing themselves at the time and needed some help to fix their data collection operations. and i was happy to go help out this organization which shared this view of doing high quality work in the public good. and as i got to norc, i had the opportunity then to work with technology to make operations more e factive and reduce costs -- effective and reduce costs, and i had the opportunity to establish a vision for the company when i took over as president which was based on establishing a leadership position in our field and drawing on our most important resource, our employees, to do that. >> during the time i served as governor i was involved in the national governors' association, and i remember meeti
they have a long history of doing excellent survey methodology work. so when i was looking around to retire after 27 years at the census bureau, i visited a number of companies, and norc was a company that shared my vision of doing work that was very important for the public good. and at the time norc also offered a new challenge in that they were reinventing themselves at the time and needed some help to fix their data collection operations. and i was happy to go help out this organization...
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you can't look tat and in the next excel spread sheet probably data. if big data is about correlation and not cause, how can you judge . >> i think to it's important unthe limitation of big data. the limitation of data that you collect. otherwise you run the risk of repeating the problem of 1936. if i recall correctly. the reader's digest erroneously prededucted -- prodeducted a republican landslide. they did that because the sample was biased. they a large sample bud it was biased. keep in mind in the big data age it works slightly differently. if you have just half a percent of the population that you sample you do it well. it gives you a good first cut of what the population thinks. now if you then sample 3% or 5%. there's a bias in the sample. that actually doesn't improve anything that makes it worse. but if you -- in the big data age collect 97 or 99% of the data, then even if that is slightly biased, that 1% that you're not collecting is not going to undo all of the analysis. again, it doesn't give the exact but it gives us the right direction a
you can't look tat and in the next excel spread sheet probably data. if big data is about correlation and not cause, how can you judge . >> i think to it's important unthe limitation of big data. the limitation of data that you collect. otherwise you run the risk of repeating the problem of 1936. if i recall correctly. the reader's digest erroneously prededucted -- prodeducted a republican landslide. they did that because the sample was biased. they a large sample bud it was biased. keep...
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by the way, i think we have excellent intelligence agencies. nsa, cia, they are excellent but when it comes to north korea we don't have much. i hope i haven't violated classified information. but there is little that we can pin down about this man. regime change. i don't see any possibility. i know there are those who say their economy is going to collapse. is in terrible shape, people are starving, no question, there are bowlegs, no question, every single foment that might need to and insurrection may be they're out were the to our eyes but internally i don't see it happening. i find that kim jong noon has wide support. i admit a lot of my visits have been in guesthouses, government guest houses, treated well, but i have ventured out into subways and fields and i have little bit of an antenna and my sense is because of their very strict personality, he retains the support of his people land when his people don't see outside of which is capable in a democratic society they don't see openness, they have hardly any internet, television is contro
by the way, i think we have excellent intelligence agencies. nsa, cia, they are excellent but when it comes to north korea we don't have much. i hope i haven't violated classified information. but there is little that we can pin down about this man. regime change. i don't see any possibility. i know there are those who say their economy is going to collapse. is in terrible shape, people are starving, no question, there are bowlegs, no question, every single foment that might need to and...
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now, when we think about excellency -- equity for mama, people argue equity for school choice is this notion that in some regard, many of us in this room have always had school choice. and that is, we can choose where to live. so for example, if 20, 30, 40 years ago if your neighborhood shows your school, if you weren't happy with the school that you were in for, you could move to another place. and so relatively affluent families have that opportunity. but relatively poor, so if we did like the public schools, therthat were private school ops we could pay for. we had all sorts of opportunities, but maybe poor families, or students of color who maybe were in neighborhoods that had been redlined over the years, such that they could live in certain neighborhoods, maybe those families had fewer choices. if you were poor or, maybe you couldn't afford it private school. maybe their work neighborhood you couldn't buy into, for example. so the equity argument was a major one. and actually if we look back, if we look back to who were many of the and fellows at the dawn of the school choice mo
now, when we think about excellency -- equity for mama, people argue equity for school choice is this notion that in some regard, many of us in this room have always had school choice. and that is, we can choose where to live. so for example, if 20, 30, 40 years ago if your neighborhood shows your school, if you weren't happy with the school that you were in for, you could move to another place. and so relatively affluent families have that opportunity. but relatively poor, so if we did like...
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conference, between family meals and gatherings i was again reading the professors were, this time his excellent biography, theodore -- theodor geisel. a critical reading of dr. seuss' "the butter battle" book and a renewed call to global citizenship or the first, a bit of introduction about the book. "the butter battle" book was published in 1984, the orwellian here, which also marked theodor geisel's 80th birthday. this was significant through his previous work spoke america and a statically. but grammatically the butter battle book joins the lorax as his strong social commentary and strongest work. the lorax was the capitalism and the ensuing environmental degradation that it creates. "the butter battle" book demonstrates nuclear armed proliferation during the cold war. aesthetically the book is david and joins the lorax and oh, the places you'll go as the party from trenches to the coal use of a narrative and these two books created intergenerational dialogue as a rep sent an adult -- as a rep sent an adult constructing a child and how and what to enter from the adult generation. rather than
conference, between family meals and gatherings i was again reading the professors were, this time his excellent biography, theodore -- theodor geisel. a critical reading of dr. seuss' "the butter battle" book and a renewed call to global citizenship or the first, a bit of introduction about the book. "the butter battle" book was published in 1984, the orwellian here, which also marked theodor geisel's 80th birthday. this was significant through his previous work spoke...
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i thought that was an excellent point, and you said it ought to be done through regular order. how do you see that proceeding? >> i see that proceeding by the president submitting a budget. i see that proceeding by the budget committees passing budget resolutions. i see that by a conference agreement between the house and senate on a budget resolution. i see that by including a reconciliation instruction to achieve the savings over the time period. and i see that working through the -- >> i've been in congress 14 years, we have not completed that once since i have been here in full, complete order. that's why i think it's incumbent upon our committee, and i know the great integrity that our chairman and members of this committee have. i think that we can achieve those goals, and i know my time is up. >> thank you, thank you very much. mr. pall soften's recognized -- paulson's recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for the witnesses being here. it's clear to me that there is broad, bipartisan consensus that our country is on an unsustainable fiscal pa
i thought that was an excellent point, and you said it ought to be done through regular order. how do you see that proceeding? >> i see that proceeding by the president submitting a budget. i see that proceeding by the budget committees passing budget resolutions. i see that by a conference agreement between the house and senate on a budget resolution. i see that by including a reconciliation instruction to achieve the savings over the time period. and i see that working through the --...
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and i want to thank the staff of this committee for its excellent work in putting together this hearing in calling the really very, very well qualified witnesses that we have and also in preparing for it. let me begin by saying that anybody who questions the need for this hearing has only to read today's headlines. the derailment yesterday of a long island railroad train carrying about a thousand passengers leaving penn station -- which, essentially, paralyzed rail traffic in much of the northeast corridor for a substantial period of time, inconveniencing many, many people and delaying freight and travel. during the month of may in a span of less than two weeks, our nation witnessed major railroad tragedy. the fist of them in -- the first of them in bridgeport, connecticut, where an eastbound train derailed and was struck by a westbound train seconds later. days later this line saw one of its own killed by a passing train while he was inspecting track in that vicinity. and on may 25th, just about a week later, two freight trains collided in missouri. only a few days after that event, a
and i want to thank the staff of this committee for its excellent work in putting together this hearing in calling the really very, very well qualified witnesses that we have and also in preparing for it. let me begin by saying that anybody who questions the need for this hearing has only to read today's headlines. the derailment yesterday of a long island railroad train carrying about a thousand passengers leaving penn station -- which, essentially, paralyzed rail traffic in much of the...
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that's not our problem so all this transparency and review is excellent but it's not solving a given problem. that is not a problem we have today. the problem is very clear, because the victims have told us what it is. and i'm just distressed that the victims voices are not being heard in this debate not nearly enough. that they can say it is the climate that they fear retaliation. the commanders are not creating a climate where they fear they can report without being blamed, being retaliated against, the marginalized, having their careers be over. that is the commanders responsibility. if they are creating a climate of fear and there's retaliation within their ranks, they are not maintaining good order and discipline. the victims tell us they do not report because of chain of command. so i disagree with the statements today, and previously, that the chain of command at the disposition phase is the problem but it's not that their decision is wrong, it's that they are the decider, and the victims have said i'm not reported because it's within the chain of command. and so the j.a.g. le
that's not our problem so all this transparency and review is excellent but it's not solving a given problem. that is not a problem we have today. the problem is very clear, because the victims have told us what it is. and i'm just distressed that the victims voices are not being heard in this debate not nearly enough. that they can say it is the climate that they fear retaliation. the commanders are not creating a climate where they fear they can report without being blamed, being retaliated...
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this is excellent. thank you. that's a great line. because no one comes back the same. not one person i've ever known has come back the same, not one. we used to have this term they threw around as a quick anecdote early in the were called new normal. is that a to statement? tim o'brien's definition how to tell a true war story includes if it's believable, it's not true. new normal is not true your you are not going to be normal again. you're not going to be normal as in the case of the person working at wal-mart very hard, trying to earn a living for their life. you as a warrior are going to think there's something wrong, as colonel mcintyre just said. what we would like to see is you refrain that to say to yourself, i have been through compromise, horrible choices that have caused me to think that i could have done better. now we're getting into the survivor guilt category. my favorite story about survivor guilt is freddie, the former chief of the vet center was -- he was severely wounded, kid next them lost three limbs and the kid next to describe one night and final
this is excellent. thank you. that's a great line. because no one comes back the same. not one person i've ever known has come back the same, not one. we used to have this term they threw around as a quick anecdote early in the were called new normal. is that a to statement? tim o'brien's definition how to tell a true war story includes if it's believable, it's not true. new normal is not true your you are not going to be normal again. you're not going to be normal as in the case of the person...
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he's been recognized for his teaching by the mccormick professorship in teaching excellence. is the author of four books and numerous articles. he has co-authored or edited another five books and the recipient of many prizes, including the american historical association's prize for first best book in history. that is for his book civic ritual and renaissance venice, a book that is now a classic in the field. and the aha's price for the best book, an italian history. is received that twice. for his book on civic ritual, as well as -- and in 2012 he received the distinguished service award for his lifetime achievement across his career by the andrew mellon foundation. professor muir. [applause] >> thank you, jim. it's a great pleasure to be here and to think and talk about machiavelli, who, in fact, abbreviated version of his name has been my password for years. i won't tell you exactly what it is. when asked to present on this occasion about "the prince" i turned to my bookshelf and i was actually quite surprised. i had far more books on machiavelli than on any other subject,
he's been recognized for his teaching by the mccormick professorship in teaching excellence. is the author of four books and numerous articles. he has co-authored or edited another five books and the recipient of many prizes, including the american historical association's prize for first best book in history. that is for his book civic ritual and renaissance venice, a book that is now a classic in the field. and the aha's price for the best book, an italian history. is received that twice. for...
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i think all of these points are excellent. one thing i want do context you'llize some of this, again race and class linked. there was an assumption in that piece about what a poor black kid should do that everyone has broadband at home. that's not at all the case. there there's poor broadband penetration particularly in some homes and rural home. it's assumption we bring to the table. part is the period of time where assumptions are being deconstructed. that america is a european-run country is decrurkted. but also that the news media, i mean, i think the very question is the news media an objective authority is being deconstructed in a different way than it has been in the pass. that's always been a question. is the news media objective? we have a prison imof different online outlets, people brogging, fox news and mississippi >> we're seeing this sort of battle of i would call it fiction versus reality coming up. for example in our world in the area of religion. we had a fictional attitude diverse reasoning use society. so no
i think all of these points are excellent. one thing i want do context you'llize some of this, again race and class linked. there was an assumption in that piece about what a poor black kid should do that everyone has broadband at home. that's not at all the case. there there's poor broadband penetration particularly in some homes and rural home. it's assumption we bring to the table. part is the period of time where assumptions are being deconstructed. that america is a european-run country is...
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with respect to miami, it's still an ongoing prosecution now, that it was an excellent example of a number of operations, surges, undercover storefronts that we have engaged in as atf that took nearly 95 violent criminals off the streets in miami gardens. some of them went state, some of them went federal. and over 200 weapons. and it was a collaboration, again not only with state and locals, but with her sister agency, the dea. >> some have -- some concerns have been raised about the magnum case. as u.s. attorney for the digit of minnesota, who was your client? who we represent and several? >> the department of justice represents the united states in courts around the country both in civil and criminal matters. so the client agency in that matter was hud. in making litigation decisions on behalf of the united states, in your view, is it ethical and appropriate to take into account not only the judgment of an agency to enforce response really but also the consequences of the litigation decisions that might impact the broader ability of the government to enforce civil rights statutes? is th
with respect to miami, it's still an ongoing prosecution now, that it was an excellent example of a number of operations, surges, undercover storefronts that we have engaged in as atf that took nearly 95 violent criminals off the streets in miami gardens. some of them went state, some of them went federal. and over 200 weapons. and it was a collaboration, again not only with state and locals, but with her sister agency, the dea. >> some have -- some concerns have been raised about the...
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to see the introduction of this legislation your wildest build may not be perfect but it is to be an excellent starting point for a bipartisan discussion that moves the debate forward toward real solutions that work for real people. and a passionate debate with opposing views, some of us are called to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. in the and i will stand before the lord and give an account and it will be clear whether or not i cared about what god cares about, and when i did what i was supposed to do. not because it was popular with men, but because it was right with god. so i am calling on you, our representatives and our leaders, who no doubt share my sense of calling and responsibility, let's not waste this opportunity to do the right thing, under god, and for the sake of people created in his image. we want you to know that we're supporting you, we are praying for you, and we are with you as you work through this i partisan and comprehensive reform. thank you. >> thank you, pastor. next is mr. krikorian, the executor of the center for immigration studies. please proceed.
to see the introduction of this legislation your wildest build may not be perfect but it is to be an excellent starting point for a bipartisan discussion that moves the debate forward toward real solutions that work for real people. and a passionate debate with opposing views, some of us are called to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves. in the and i will stand before the lord and give an account and it will be clear whether or not i cared about what god cares about, and when i did...
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our goal is to help each school excel so every child in the state, every child has access to a great education. now, as a parent, that's really a moral imperative. and as your governor, it's also an economic imperative. if we want to help employers grow here in wisconsin, we must show them there is a steady supply of graduates with the skills needed to fill the jobs not only of today, but of to have been. [applause] before but of tomorrow. prison -- >> we worked hard over the past year to improve education, particularly in reading. funds in my last budget provided reading screeners to assess kids as they come into kindergarten. now, this is tremendously important as research shows kids learn to read through third grade and then read to learn for the rest of their lives. we also put in place a series of other important reforms to improve our early childhood and elementary school reading skills. one of the other great ways to help improve skills is by increasing the number of people who read to our kids. last year i challenged all of us to mentor a child as a realizing buddy. now, i kn
our goal is to help each school excel so every child in the state, every child has access to a great education. now, as a parent, that's really a moral imperative. and as your governor, it's also an economic imperative. if we want to help employers grow here in wisconsin, we must show them there is a steady supply of graduates with the skills needed to fill the jobs not only of today, but of to have been. [applause] before but of tomorrow. prison -- >> we worked hard over the past year to...
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i think you're doing an excellent job, and i just want to clarify that she's not homeland security. the other thing i was going to ask the gentleman, if he would produce that study that you mentioned at the beginning of your questions, could you tell us who the author was and make that available for the committee? >> you betcha. >> thank you. >> chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from new york, ms. maloney. >> good evening and thank you for your hard work and for testimony today before the committee. i'm a, i'm concerned about commerce. not only do we need to keep bad products out and homeland security and all of that focus, but mexico's a very important trading partner to, with america. and it's our largest, it's really our third largest trading partner. and our relationship has grown tremendously since nafta and significantly in the past years. and mexico has grown to be roughly $500 billion in bilateral trade. that's important to the economy of america, and it's also sustained through the trade by some estimates six million jobs in the united states. so it has economic value th
i think you're doing an excellent job, and i just want to clarify that she's not homeland security. the other thing i was going to ask the gentleman, if he would produce that study that you mentioned at the beginning of your questions, could you tell us who the author was and make that available for the committee? >> you betcha. >> thank you. >> chair now recognizes the gentlewoman from new york, ms. maloney. >> good evening and thank you for your hard work and for...
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. >> i'd like to thank the commission and its excellent staff with whom i've worked for many years, particularly on this issue. i bring a lot of perspectives to this issue, one being a chinese linguist. as you said, 20 years of building teams of cleared linguist analysts doing open source research for the be u.s. government particularly on cyber issues as early as the late '90s working on chinese internet censorship issues with this commission. and then finally, the perspective of being a victim of these attacks given my own profile and my own writings and trying to expel chinese attackers from the ramparts of my own corporate networks on a daily basis. we talked a lot in the last six or nine months about chinese espionage. i would say it's a multifaceted issue, and i'd just like to highlight quickly five different areas of the cyber espionage which are different in form and require slightly different strategies. and i think it's important for us to not treat it as a monolith, but to break it down into pieces. the fist set of category, frankly, is the traditional government military classified d
. >> i'd like to thank the commission and its excellent staff with whom i've worked for many years, particularly on this issue. i bring a lot of perspectives to this issue, one being a chinese linguist. as you said, 20 years of building teams of cleared linguist analysts doing open source research for the be u.s. government particularly on cyber issues as early as the late '90s working on chinese internet censorship issues with this commission. and then finally, the perspective of being a...
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this is excellent. thank you. that's a great line. because no one comes back the same. not one person i've ever known has come back the same. not one. we used out this term they threw around as a quick anecdote: the normal. is that a true statement? tim o'bryan's definition of how to tell a true war story includes if it's believable it's not true. new normal is not true. you're not going to be normal again. you're not going to be normal living for their life. he was a warrior are going to think there's something wrong. what was the utc is he referring not to sit here so, i have been through compromise, horrible choices that have caused me to think i could've done better. now the survival go category. my favorite story about survivor guilt is the former chief of the vets and their was severely wounded. the kid next to him lost three limbs in the kid next to describe one night. he finally gets up his courage to ask why he's crying and the kid says the kid next to them is okay. i don't know if you can make it. what are you worried josie for? jones they lost all four in one
this is excellent. thank you. that's a great line. because no one comes back the same. not one person i've ever known has come back the same. not one. we used out this term they threw around as a quick anecdote: the normal. is that a true statement? tim o'bryan's definition of how to tell a true war story includes if it's believable it's not true. new normal is not true. you're not going to be normal again. you're not going to be normal living for their life. he was a warrior are going to think...
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>> i think that if campaign is an excellent job in raising the profile of this issue and all the other issues around how do. i think the response to the outcome yesterday, i think they made a number of fairpoint. we've made good progress. this issue is far of the candidates have been. loss of tax rooms have been made. lots of revenue has been recovered for this country. we've done a huge amount t to hp the poorest country in the. the african leaders said this is absolutely the agenda they want wanted to focus on but there is more to do. i'm happy to keep on that work. >> cannot congratulate my right honorable friend on progress on certain at the g8 summit who claims there's more to do. president putin reminded us all that amongst this in rebels are those of the same kind that murdered lay review. what more can we be doing in this country to stop young bushman from going to say and coming back radicalized? >> my friend is right. there is a danger of young people from britain going and taking part in this conflict just as it has been in afghanistan, in somalia, and mali, and elsewhere. w
>> i think that if campaign is an excellent job in raising the profile of this issue and all the other issues around how do. i think the response to the outcome yesterday, i think they made a number of fairpoint. we've made good progress. this issue is far of the candidates have been. loss of tax rooms have been made. lots of revenue has been recovered for this country. we've done a huge amount t to hp the poorest country in the. the african leaders said this is absolutely the agenda they...
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and i want to thank all of you for your excellent testimony which i've been following even while i've been absent here through the wonders of our modern communication system and, also, thank you to our chairman, senator nelson, for his leadership here and on this committee. i have a somewhat more mundane area of inquiry, and i won't belabor it because i know we're near the end here. but i am the interested in -- i am interested in how nasa as its mission changes, as new programs are developed, constellation folded into orion, for example, changes its contract so as to maintain competitive bidding. in other words, i'm very interested in the openness and competitiveness of the contract awards so that when, in effect, the mission changes if there is a need for new services or goods, is there also a move to maintain or open new rounds of competitive bidding? i don't know who would want to answer that. >> i guess i can answer that. i would say that, you know, we have requirements for justification for other than full and open procure canment, right? so -- procurement. so in the federal acq
and i want to thank all of you for your excellent testimony which i've been following even while i've been absent here through the wonders of our modern communication system and, also, thank you to our chairman, senator nelson, for his leadership here and on this committee. i have a somewhat more mundane area of inquiry, and i won't belabor it because i know we're near the end here. but i am the interested in -- i am interested in how nasa as its mission changes, as new programs are developed,...
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and map-21 provides an excellent opportunity. as joe mentioned, we certainly, you know, appreciate being able to be at the table, the department has a new freight council now. the legislation u.s. has opened up -- itself has opened up funding for projects specifically, import infrastructure and development projects, and we're excited about that. and here's why it's important. one of the issues that we have been studying since pretty much i got here has been the expansion of the panama canal. and i know that you're all fairly familiar. the fact that there's a lot bigger ships coming online and pretty soon in 2015 they should be able to transfer through the can canal, over a thousand-foot-long vessel could handle about 13,000 trucks that'll be needed to fully unload and reload a ship of that size. and if you think about what that would do to a port community and the infrastructure needed to get all that freight in and out, i know that's an extreme example, but my friend joe, that's a train about 50 miles long. [laughter] when you t
and map-21 provides an excellent opportunity. as joe mentioned, we certainly, you know, appreciate being able to be at the table, the department has a new freight council now. the legislation u.s. has opened up -- itself has opened up funding for projects specifically, import infrastructure and development projects, and we're excited about that. and here's why it's important. one of the issues that we have been studying since pretty much i got here has been the expansion of the panama canal....
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my staff is a very complex emergency operation plans which are excellent documents for training and planning and resourcing but they're almost useless during an incident or creating one common operating picture between the chemical industry and the 911 center, emergency operation center, and the first responders on seeing is absolutely critical for a simple two-page site-specific plan can contain the critical data that is needed. i cannot express how important the radio communications layer is are in an incident. there are 33 chemical facilities within our jurisdiction and each of them possess a radio capable of committee director with the 911 center, emergency operation center, and the first responders on the ground. they came into a river into state visit by and i mentioned earlier, ma and this is what i refer to as one, operator in the picture. numbers could have been accomplished without having a strong lepc in place. our local chemical industry has been absently in snow and courtney with the lepc, as well as funding and managing the essential emergency response committee and the associa
my staff is a very complex emergency operation plans which are excellent documents for training and planning and resourcing but they're almost useless during an incident or creating one common operating picture between the chemical industry and the 911 center, emergency operation center, and the first responders on seeing is absolutely critical for a simple two-page site-specific plan can contain the critical data that is needed. i cannot express how important the radio communications layer is...
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the bottom line, excellent question. i think it's not just advocating. i think what we need to do is look at the program and see where it failed and where it actually did very well and try to address, you know, those points of failures and try to fix it. but i think we just can't divorce it, we can't walk away from it and say, well, it completely failed, so we're not going to do anything. we have to look at it, again, holistically, and then try to make it better. just from going forward. and we can talk offline over what those things can be. >> okay. thank you very much, rudy, for that. and thank you for joining us. please join me in thanking our panelists. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> today congressional budget office director douglas elmendorf releases the agency's 2013 budget and economic outlook. we'll be live starting at 2 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. and also at 2 p.m. eastern, a bipartisan group of house members unveil gun trafficking legislation. you can see it live on our companion network, c-span3. >> ya loved her time -- julia love
the bottom line, excellent question. i think it's not just advocating. i think what we need to do is look at the program and see where it failed and where it actually did very well and try to address, you know, those points of failures and try to fix it. but i think we just can't divorce it, we can't walk away from it and say, well, it completely failed, so we're not going to do anything. we have to look at it, again, holistically, and then try to make it better. just from going forward. and we...
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. >> excellent. thank you very much. we open it up for questions. we'll bring the microphone over to you. >> i guess my question deals with, um, the political process and how it would play with these two presidents. in presidential primaries one of the reasons candidates like to stay close to the center is because they know they have a general election coming up. but when you know you're going to be elected president once you win your primary and you're on the stage with six other guys who are also conservative or liberal, really the best way to distinguish yourself is to move to the extreme. which means when you are elected, isn't there a problem that you have to travel so much more from where you were during the primary to be so far out to the extremes now really kind of need you to stay there, but, you know, how do you come back to the center then? >> yeah, that's an interesting question. what happens? you're right, once you make this change it's going to have all kinds of, you know, change things. so now in the primary does it, does it, you know
. >> excellent. thank you very much. we open it up for questions. we'll bring the microphone over to you. >> i guess my question deals with, um, the political process and how it would play with these two presidents. in presidential primaries one of the reasons candidates like to stay close to the center is because they know they have a general election coming up. but when you know you're going to be elected president once you win your primary and you're on the stage with six other...
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. >> i just want to just, as we close, again i want to thank you and your staff for your excellent report. i want to say to mr. duncan who just spoke -- isn't duncan? he just did what he said is so important. we talk about waste, fraud, abuse, and sometimes i think we can talk about it as if it's just a lightweight thing. but as mr. duncan pointed out this is serious stuff. and when we talk about trying to figure out how we save money and all that you know, i just want you coming you will do a great job. by want you to continue to try to show was how we can be more effective and efficient in rooting out some of this waste, fraud, and abuse. because it's real. i think we kind of just say it communism and a lot of times when i really digging deep to get to it. it may call us highlighting is very bad actors. it may call for us making sure that things get referred to the proper authorities, like justice or whatever, but we've got to get to this because, and we got the kind of money that he was just talking a, just going out the door. and some folks getting rich. but at the same time the money
. >> i just want to just, as we close, again i want to thank you and your staff for your excellent report. i want to say to mr. duncan who just spoke -- isn't duncan? he just did what he said is so important. we talk about waste, fraud, abuse, and sometimes i think we can talk about it as if it's just a lightweight thing. but as mr. duncan pointed out this is serious stuff. and when we talk about trying to figure out how we save money and all that you know, i just want you coming you will...